I gave up trying to work out if we´re getting a decent amount of rain this year, and since the forecasters thought we wouldn´t, I bought a small rain gauge. Here are my records (updated weekly), and a sticky link to Metcheck (which I think´s neat) so current weather forecasts are displayed.

Month total rain (mm) average (mm) % of ave

April total: 30.75 58 53%

May total: 76 59 129%

June total: 5.5 60 9%

July total: 73 53.1 137%

August total: 80.5 62 130%

Sept total: 68 68 100%

October total: 124 75 165%

Rainfall averages are for the Chiltern Hills, calculated from the past 30-year records

October was very wet and took us to above average for the period since I started measuring. Hopefully we´ll keep going...